Team Fortress and steam friends list

SiegeMachine · Post by **SiegeMachine** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:59 pm

I haven't been able to find a way yet, but is it possible to somehow have steam run not in a virtual desktop or at least a seperate virtual desktop than team fortress 2? If I could alt tab or switch desktop spaces and be able to access steam from my taskbar so I can talk to my friends in the game (since in-game overlay doesn't work) Or join them using the steam friends options without having to close the game everytime would be amazing. I've tried settings the virtual desktop to run on hl2.exe and steam.exe doesn't. This makes steam start up how I would like it running from my taskbar so I can access it via the icon no matter what desktop I am on. Then team fortress 2 starts but its full screen and if I try to alt tab or change desktops the game freezes and I have to kill it. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks!

SiegeMachine · Post by **SiegeMachine** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:00 pm

PS (Can't find an edit button) Another option would be to somehow find a way to alt tab WITHIN the virtual desktop to get to the steam running behind TF2?

SiegeMachine · Post by **SiegeMachine** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:35 pm

Turns out I can run TF2 in windowed mode from its own options and have the virtual desktop turned off and it works fine now. Before it had to be run that way. However my taskbar is on top of the game but I can deal with that, much better now than it was.